For context its from a Yahoo Auction listing for a cable to connect X68k to FM Towns monitor. Google translate seems to keep referring to "mental health" so I assume this is quite context sensitive.

Many thanks in advance.

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Strange, it seems that 精神衛生 does actually mean mental health, and so does 精神衛生上 - but I'm not sure what the 上 adds to the meaning. On its own, 上 means "up", "top", "superior", etc.

So if you break it down separately, the meanings are:

接続ケーブル = "connection cable"

必要ないけど = "do not need"

精神衛生 = "mental health", but with the added 上 it might be meant as a positive term (because "up", "superior", "top" = positive terms), so maybe 精神衛生上 means "positive mental health", but then that still doesn't make sense in this context... Perhaps the word can be used in this kind of context and it's just not well documented in any translation system, because it isn't commonly used this way.

精神衛生 = "mental health", but with the added 上 it might be meant as a positive term (because "up", "superior", "top" = positive terms), so maybe 精神衛生上 means "positive mental health", but then that still doesn't make sense in this context... Perhaps the word can be used in this kind of context and it's just not well documented in any translation system, because it isn't commonly used this way.

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It's quite common japanese.
(something) 上 = from the standpoint of (something), as a matter of (something), in the field of (something), ...
cfr http://jisho.org/search/#kanji 上

Indeed, for me it's "for your peace of mind" if you would translate it more liberally to English.
BTW, I think I found the auction, and:
- he also says that since the TOWNS display does not support sound, he did not connect the audio cables "for your mental health"
- beware, the guy writes your sentence under "models that should be supported, but I didn't test them" and "if it doesn't work, sorry"

BTW, if anyone is interested, the image is from the work-in-progress English translation of the Japanese-only Simcity 64, a brilliant game for the N64 (or an emulator, of course). It's basically an enhanced version of Simcity 2000, but with features that for some reason were never added to to later PC iterations of the game, such as being able to view the city in first person view, and walk, drive a car, travel by train, and even fly (via a helicopter that you control) around your city. To me, it's the best version of a city builder that I've ever played, because it's so immersive. And the isometric screen, where you actually select and place objects, is now genuine 3D so you can alter the view to make it easier to judge what you want to place where.

The translation is progressing very well indeed, despite being almost entirely the work of one person, and if you want to read about it, then go here:

(Please note: there are two Simcity games on the N64, Simcity 2000, and Simcity 64, and it's the latter game (the much enhanced one) that is being translated, though Simcity 2000 might well be translated one day).

No, I've not seen that site before, thanks for the link. Like most people, my experience of the 64DD and it's games was non-existent until it became possible to run the games on the Everdrive 64 and the 64Drive, as neither I or nor any of my friends had even seen a 64DD, let alone used one.

But I'd heard about SimCIty 64, and it really intrigued me, since I loved SimCity 2000 on the PC, and SC64 seemed (according to what I read online and in N64 magazines) to be even more immersive and enjoyable, and when the 64DD failed to be released outside of Japan, I hoped that SimCity 64 would be released on cartridge, but it never happened, and I forgot about the game until some very clever hackers got the games to work on the flash cartridges, and I finally got to play it, and it's every bit as brilliant as I hoped it would be! (This is especially good for me as at the moment, I feel that modern gaming is rather boring and formulaic, so at least I have this and other great older games to tide me over until modern gaming gets great again).

Anyway, thanks for the translation, and if you like city-building games and have an N64 and a flash cartridge (or you can use an emulator, but I've not yet found one that emulates it even close to perfectly) then you should try SimCity 64, as it's really good.